Wringing his hands on stage, the troubled guitarist told his audience at the Sommet Center that he fell into “a wormhole of selfishness, greediness and arrogance” and “in the quest to be clever, forgot about the people who love me and that I love.”

Mayer, who was visibly choked up, added that his bandmates were on stage with him “not because they condone what I say in any given interview … but they support myself as a possible future grown-up.”

During his emotional apology, the audience cheered and screamed. Before the show Mayer Tweeted: “I just wanted to play the guitar for people. Everything else just sort of popped up and I improvised, and kept doubling down on it.”